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This is a beautiful sweet things cookbook with doable & tasty recipes!
Magid takes old recipes for a spin with organic ingredients, whole wheat pastry flour here and there, and makes them better. Magid adds coconut to a carrot cake recipe and suggests adding minced fresh ginger, she takes Twinkies and Ding Dongs and turns them into something, well, wonderfully edible-- but the upside-down pineapple cake is the family favorite: it's like a giant decadent pineapple-caramel roll!
Now, nothing I make from this book ever looks as beautiful as Magid's photos-- but that's due to my own slackerness. Magid includes instructions on how to...
Edit your review | Add a comment | Share- Pineapple Upside-down CakeThis is not your grandma's upside-down cake-- this a pineapply-gooey-caramelized treat! It's like a caramel roll with pineapple-- great for brunches! The Author suggests adding rum-- which I haven't tried ... yet!No likes Can’t Like Unlike Like No likes
- Lemongrass, Ginger and Lime Leaf Chocolate TartDense chocolate sizzles with flecks of ginger, lemon grass and lime-- skip the lychees filled with white chocolate and it's super easy to make!No likes Can’t Like Unlike Like No likes

3 likes Can’t Like Unlike Like 3 likesI love this book! No boring vegetarian tome-- this book is full of interesting and, well, FUN recipes: Watermelon Gazpacho-- Thai Style, Parsnip Risotto-- (it's good honest!), Chilled Tomato, Peach and Ginger Soup --shockingly good! If you're a vegetarian cook looking for summer fun or a winter pick me-up this is the book for you! Written by a globe trotting London Chef born into a Greek Cypriot restaurant running family-- makes for tantalizing recipes!


